Xshell

Xshell is a powerful terminal emulator that supports SSH, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL.

Free Personal
Windows

Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation. SSH (Secure Shell) protocol supports encryption and user authentication for secure connections over the Internet, and it replaces legacy protocols such as TELNET and RLOGIN.

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Support for SFTP Command line interface SSH

The Best 30 Xshell Alternatives

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PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms. A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

Tabbed interface Support for SFTP Session management SSH Configurability Built in SSH client Telnet client Host management Xterm emulation
281 Like

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.

Free Open Source Linux iPhone BSD iPad Mac Haiku Cygwin

Support for SFTP Jailbreak required SSH
139 Like

MobaXterm

An advanced terminal that gives Windows users a powerful, Unix-like command-line experience.

Freemium Windows

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Tabbed interface Support for SFTP Multiple protocols Macros Feature Windows Explorer integration Multi Session Autoimport of Putty sessions Secure Copy (SCP)
118 Like

Terminator

Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

Function Key Shortcuts Split windows
82 Like

ConnectBot

ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone.

Free Open Source Android
61 Like

ZOC

ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Tabbed interface Scripting SSH Auto Highlighting BBS Support Binary trace files Hot keys Incoming data as hex dump Stream Capture Telnet client
55 Like

Remote Desktop Manager

Remote Desktop Manager lets you centralize all your remote connections, passwords and credentials into a unique platform that can be securely shared between users.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Tabbed interface Remote desktop SSH Role based security access
26 Like

Royal TSX

Royal TS provides easy and secure access to your remote systems Unlock the power to remotely manage your systems on multiple platforms! Royal TS is the perfect tool for server admins, system engineers, developers and IT focused...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Tabbed interface Remote desktop Explorer like SSH
26 Like

SecureCRT

SecureCRT combines rock-solid terminal emulation with the strong encryption, data integrity, and authentication options of the Secure Shell protocol.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Scriptable SSH
22 Like

rdesktop

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the users Windows desktop.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
22 Like

Chrome Secure Shell

Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Chrome
17 Like

JuiceSSH

The all in one terminal client for Android including SSH, Local Shell, Mosh and Telnet support.

Free Android Android Tablet mosh OpenSSH Dropbear SSH Server and Client

Ssh tunnel SSH Telnet client
14 Like

FireSSH

FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript!

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox Waterfox Pale Moon

Firefox extension Legacy Firefox Addon Browser based app SSH
12 Like

ASG-Remote Desktop

ASG-Remote Desktop is the indispensable tool for administrative access to remote computers.

Commercial Windows
11 Like

KRDC

KRDC is the KDE Remote Desktop Client. KRDC was overhauled as part of the Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2007 by Urs Wolfer and other developers to be included in the KDE 4.0.

Free Open Source Linux
10 Like

Poderosa

Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows. Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features. Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time.

Free Open Source Windows

Support for SFTP SSH Secure Copy (SCP)
5 Like

MacTerm

MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
4 Like

RXVT

RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
1 Like

Putty for Mac

Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

Commercial Mac OS X

Session management SSH Telnet client Host management Xterm emulation Secure Copy (SCP)

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Xshell

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The Best 30 Xshell Alternatives

PuTTY

OpenSSH

MobaXterm

Terminator

ConnectBot

ZOC

Remote Desktop Manager

Royal TSX

SecureCRT

rdesktop

Chrome Secure Shell

JuiceSSH

FireSSH

ASG-Remote Desktop

KRDC

Poderosa

MacTerm

RXVT

Putty for Mac

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